Incidents

A man suspected in a burglary in the 400 block of Green St. in Olde Towne was shot and killed Saturday night by police, a department spokeswoman said. Friends of a man who was shot say he was from Kazakhstan.

A citizen of Kazakhstan tried to hijack an Alitalia flight from Paris to Rome Sunday night, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Japan Thursday said it would ban people entering the 20 km evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, Kazakhstan Today reports.

BP is suing Transocean, the owner of the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, for $40bn in damages, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Authorities were considering restricting access to the evacuation zone around Japan's crippled nuclear plant Wednesday to limit radiation exposure to residents who may want to return to their homes, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Officials say three students have been injured after a Houston kindergartner brought a gun to school that accidentally discharged when it fell from his pocket, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Workers at Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant have begun removing highly radioactive water from the basement of a reactor building to on-site storage, Kazakhstan Today reports.

The death toll from Japan's earthquake and tsunami rose to nearly 14,000 on Monday, Kazakhstan Today reports.

The death toll in Chiang Mai, Thailand, continues to rise with a seventh person now identified as having died in similar circumstances to a young New Zealand tourist, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Japan sent robots in to stricken nuclear plant to help repair its crippled reactors, Kazakhstan Today reports.